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Thomas Fuller Love Quotes and Sayings
#1 Of Marriage, The holy state, and the profane state [S]
1. Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate…Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs…
#2 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
2. As the best Wine makes the sharpest Vinegar, so the deepest Love turns to the deadliest Haired.
#3 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
3. Hatred is blind, as well as Love.
#4 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
4. He that plants Trees, loves others besides himself.
#5 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
5. There it more Pleasure in loving, than in being belov’d.
#6 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
6. A Penny-weight of Love is worth a Pound of Law.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Thomas Fuller (1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England, published after his death. He was a prolific author, and one of the first English writers able to live by his pen (and his many patrons).
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Sayings by Thomas Fuller
#1 Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life [S]
1. Always speak Truth; but not at all times the whole Truth.
#2 Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life [S]
2. Always tell Truth: where it is not loved, it is respected and feared.
#3 Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life [S]
3. Believe not easily ill Reports concerning either thy self, or others.
#4 Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life [S]
4. If thou art a Master, be sometimes Blind; if a Servant, sometimes Deaf.
#5 Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life [S]
5. Squander not away thy Life in Pastimes: There’s but little need to drive away Time, which is ever flying away so swiftly of itself; and when once gone is gone for ever.
#6 Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life [S]
6. If thou canst not find Tranquility in thyself; ’twill be to little Purpose to seek it any where else.
#7 Introductio ad Prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life [S]
7. Learn the Art of Silence: the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
#8 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
8. Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
#9 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
9. He that will not sail till he have a full fair Wind, will lose many a Voyage.
#10 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
10. He that travels much, knows much.
#11 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
11. If you command wisely, you’ll be obey’d cheerfully.
#12 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
12. Travel makes a wise Man better, but a Fool worse.
#13 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
13. ‘Tis better to suffer Wrong, than do it.
#14 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
14. Two Things a Man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot help.
#15 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
15. A Gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
#16 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
16. A Man is not good or bad, for one Action.
#17 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
17. Better be alone than in bad Company.
#18 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
18. Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
#19 Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British [S]
19. All things are difficult, before they are easy.
#20 Of Anger, The holy state, and the profane state
20. Be not mortally angry with any for a venial fault.—He will make a strange combustion in the state of his soul, who, at the landing of every cock-boat, sets the beacons on fire. To be angry for every toy, debases the worth of thy anger; for he who will be angry for any thing, will be angry for nothing.
#21 A Pisgah sight of Palestine [S]
21. …it is always darkest just before the day dawneth…